People & Culture Business Partner

Pacific National; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Novated Leasing

Fitness Passport

Purchase leave program

Access to EAP

Job summary

Pacific National is seeking an experienced People & Culture Business Partner based at the Melbourne Freight Terminal. You will support Intermodal operations, strengthening leadership capability and resolving complex people matters to deliver safe, reliable services.

You will partner with operational leaders, interpret agreements and legislation, and drive workforce planning across locations while connecting with the national P&C team.

Qualifications

• Experience as an HR Business Partner in a unionised environment.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and contemporary people practices.
• Ability to influence and coach leaders while maintaining trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders to improve people management and workforce outcomes.
• Provide practical, commercially sound advice on employee and industrial relations matters.
• Coach leaders through challenging conversations and build confidence to manage people matters.
• Interpret enterprise agreements, awards, policies and legislation to support decisions and manage risk.
• Support workforce planning, organisational change, and succession initiatives.

Skills

HR Business Partner

Industrial relations

Workforce planning

Leadership coaching

Employment law

Education

Bachelor degree

Job description

• Partner with operational leaders in a complex, highly unionised environment
• Influence leadership capability, workforce planning and business performance
• Permanent full-time role based at the Melbourne Freight Terminal

We are seeking an experienced People & Culture Business Partner to support our Intermodal operations. Based in West Melbourne, you will work closely with operational leaders to strengthen leadership capability, resolve complex people matters and build a workforce ready to deliver safe, reliable services.

This is an opportunity to make a visible impact in a large operational business while remaining connected to a supportive national People & Culture team.

What You’ll Do

Reporting to the Senior P&C Manager, you will:

• Partner with operational leaders to improve people management, leadership capability and workforce outcomes.
• Provide practical, commercially sound advice on employee and industrial relations matters, including performance, investigations, grievances, disputes and workplace conduct.
• Coach leaders through challenging conversations and build their confidence to manage people matters effectively.
• Interpret enterprise agreements, awards, policies and employment legislation to support sound decisions and manage risk.
• Support workforce planning, organisational change, talent and succession initiatives that strengthen operational readiness.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, employees, union representatives and internal partners across multiple locations.
• Work autonomously as the key P&C partner for your stakeholder group while contributing to the broader national team.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience as an HR Business Partner, Senior P&C Advisor or similar in a unionised, blue-collar or operational environment.
• Strong employee and industrial relations capability, including investigations, disputes, disciplinary matters and interpretation of industrial instruments.
• Sound knowledge of employment legislation and contemporary people practices.
• A proven ability to influence, coach and constructively challenge leaders while maintaining trusted relationships.
• Confidence, resilience and sound judgement in complex environments with competing priorities.
• The ability to work autonomously and support stakeholders across multiple locations.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications; experience in rail, transport or logistics is desirable.

Why join us?

At Pacific National we value the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted.

Some of the benefits we offer are:

• Paid parental leave
• Novated Leasing
• Fitness Passport
• Purchase leave program
• Access to EAP program through Sonder

We live by our Values: Make it Simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own It – helping us build strong connections and do our best work every day.

Learn more at https://www.pacificnational.com.au/careers

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